Example sentences of "parents ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research was therefore concerned with parents ' retrospective impressions and reflections , and not put alongside similar commentaries from social workers or children . |
| 2 | It was formerly her parents ' second car , sold to Robyn at a bargain price when her mother replaced it . |
| 3 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 4 | However , apart from their own and their parents ' socio-economic characteristics , demographic factors such as early marriage and childbearing experience also have a substantial effect . |
| 5 | Caused by parents ' low intelligence . |
| 6 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 7 | After the excitement of the dance , her parents ' small cottage was a depressing sight . |
| 8 | And her parents ' small hotel had always kept them comfortable , rather than wealthy . |
| 9 | Health visitors and family doctors can help parents anticipate areas of difficulty by providing literature about different stages and issues in feeding young children as well as discussing the parents ' individual concerns and worries ( Finney 1986 ) . |
| 10 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 11 | DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion . |
| 12 | Jane had been hurt by her parents ' occasional references to her in newspaper interviews as being a ‘ difficult child ’ or other remarks prompted only by Laura 's nagging worries about what the future might hold for Jane . |
| 13 | In Cognitive–Behaviour terms these parents ' emotional responses would differ because their appraisals of the situation differ . |
| 14 | This appeal does not emanate from the rational and utilitarian purposes parents may satisfy through reading : rather , the child responds to the parents ' emotional absorption in reading . |
| 15 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 16 | Ebenezer and Hezekiah Roebuck , two woollen weavers in the same village , were probably his brothers ; their Old Testament names give witness to their parents ' religious beliefs . |
| 17 | His parents ' religious conviction and corresponding belief in the virtue of hard work clearly had a formative influence , but it is notable how much significance is attributed to more formal education , especially learning through books . |
| 18 | This must be settled quite soon after the birth , for the christened child carries for the whole of its life a record of its parents ' religious belief . |
| 19 | POP recluse Morrissey blames his loveless lifestyle on his parents ' unhappy marriage . |
| 20 | Courts will weigh parents ' financial means in imposing fines and compensation , and they will be ordered to attend court hearings , he told the conference . |
| 21 | My parents ' steadfast refusal to countenance the anti-semitism common among many of the people they knew was my first lesson as a young child against accepting hearsay rather than the evidence of your own experience . |
| 22 | ‘ Billy was extraordinarily generous to his friends ’ , says Henderson , who was a guest at McCarty-Cooper 's $250,000 ball at Miami 's Viscaya for his parents ' Golden Wedding anniversary in 1985 . |
| 23 | Susie Novis of Castlegate , Scarborough , had the photos in a box in the car ready to make a presentation for her parents ' golden wedding anniversary today . |
| 24 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |
| 25 | She was an only child and hated her parents ' heated exchanges . |
| 26 | Whether or not it is correct , it quite clearly differs from the parents ' explicit account of their perception of how the decision has been reached and the implications it will have for George . |
| 27 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 28 | She looked around the small front room of the cottage that was now her parents ' only home . |
| 29 | Children are many parents ' only source of security in old age . |
| 30 | In a shared tank the parents ' real problems begin when the fry are free-swimming , as they are easy prey for other fish . |